Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946 in Chicago) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and artist. She was influential in the birth of punk rock with her 1975 debut album Horses which was produced by John Cale. Called "Godmother of Punk" she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith is most widely known for the song Because the Night, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005 Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith was born in Chicago. Her mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer, and father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Woodbury, New Jersey. Raised the daughter of a Jehovah's Witness mother, she claims she had a strong religious education and a very good Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining and much later wrote the opening line of her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964. The family was not wealthy and Smith went to work in a factory. In 1967 she left Glassboro State Teachers College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while wor
| 1 | Strange Messengers | Gung Ho |
| 2 | Lo And Beholden | Gung Ho |
| 3 | Babelogue | Easter |
| 4 | The Warrior | Rock of the 80's, Vol. 14 |
| 5 | Space Monkey | Easter |
| 6 | High On Rebellion | Easter |
| 7 | Up There Down There | Dream Of Life |
| 8 | The Warrior | Rock of the 80's, Vol. 14 |
| 9 | Boy Cried Wolf | Gung Ho |
| 10 | The Jackson Song | Dream Of Life |
| 11 | Free Money | Horses (Disc 1) |
| 12 | Going Under | Dream Of Life |
| 13 | Kimberly | Horses (Disc 1) |
| 14 | People Have the Power | Dream Of Life |
| 15 | Seven Ways Of Going | Wave |
| 16 | Gloria | Horses (Disc 2) |
| 17 | Till Victory | Easter |
| 18 | Wish I were you | Armageddon Soundtrack |
| 19 | Rock N Roll Nigger | Easter |
| 20 | Frederick | Wave |